Peter Lawwell

He said in his interview after the game tonight he was in Austria and couldn’t tell anyone and his pals were all texting him asking were he was

Didn’t even know when it was going to be announced either.

 

No, we have done fast action before.
The press never knew most of our dealings till the player was signed.

Paying over the required amount for Connell makes business sense they’re talking about £250000 price tag & we paid £350000. He is worth far more than that & would have been to an English club.

 

Pretty sure that the criminally racist comment was directed at fans who had posted comments on social media, but I might be wrong. The point I was making is that lawell being a tory means nothing. He's either good at his job or he's not.

 

Some of the stuff said about Lawwell in this thread is genuine tin foil hat nonsense.

 

None of them where quality though, did any of them get you thinking, wow was a transfer? Not me

This deal for big Chris though, imagine if he got him for Rodgers? It’s been well published that we have been looking at him for a good while.

 

Naw it insnae

 

I never mentioned Turnbull, it was right for the club to walk away.

He should have back other managers with real quality as well. We should be light years ahead of everyone in Scotland, last season showed we are not.

We haven’t addressed our weakest parts of the team for a while now, stocked piled money.

Like I said if Lawwell is willing to add quality every season then he will get a pat on the back, until that happens then we can say aye amazing ext.

Let’s see if he gets Lennon more vital first team players that we need now.

 

So do you think Lawwell is doing a good job, and do you think him and the board have done enough over resolution 12?

 

Celtic are a well run club, no doubt in my mind, and that comes down to Lawwell. The way the club is marketed and the sponsorship deals are examples of how good a job he's doing. He's never going to have 100 000 plus fans agreeing with everything he does but some of the stuff posted about him on here is embarrassing. But this whole, "he's a Tory" is just nonsense or do you think, like some, we shouldn't have Tories anywhere near our club?

I've not got strong feelings regarding the resolution 12 stuff. Rangers were cheating and I'd like to have seen certain individuals responsible punished far more than they got. But stripping them of their titles, cup wins would, IMHO, be a paper exercise, and they would claim to have won these things anyway just like they claim they're the same club the now. For me winning these things ia all about the celebrations on the day and we can't get that back.

 

There’s a difference between being a well run business and a well run football club, IMO.

 

Maybe in the end, Lawwell didn’t trust Rodgers or Congerton with money for signings !! Their record wasn’t exactly great

 

Celtic Football Club is a broad church but to have individuals running the club whose views are the antithesis of the reason the club was formed should not be acceptable. What sets us apart from most football clubs in the world is our community and social conscience. 'Match the Fine for Palestine', 'Refugees Welcome' and the regular food Bank initiatives ran by the GB are just a few examples.

Our board are happy to dine out on the praise for these things - building a Brother Walfrid statue outside the ground - yet their own views and actions are diametrically opposed. Former director, Ian Livingston - or Lord Livingston of Parkhead to give him his boak-inducing Tory peer title - voted for Tax Credit cuts which would have seen the poorest in society £1300 worse off per annum, while sitting on the Celtic board. When people rightly called out this paradox Bankier doubled down with his fellow Tory and called the whole campaign against him (not just the people making anti-Semitic comments) as "criminally racist".

Lawwell and Bankier refused to pay our employees the living wage for 3 years, when it was originally mooted at the 2013 AGM. Bankier stated that the club did not recognise the trade unions supporting the individuals and that it would cost the club £500k. This is from 2 individuals whose basic salary (not including bonuses) have risen 100% and 60% respectively over the last few years.

This stance completely contradicts your first. If Celtic are a well run club (and PLC) they would be pursuing to the hilt, evidence of corruption that benefitted our closest rival and simultaneously done us out of an 8-figure sum through automatic qualification to the Champions League. By not doing so, we allowed a national Football Association that has acted to our detriment on a number of occasions the opportunity to do so again in the future.

By contrast, Fergus McCann knew Farry and his cohorts had intentionally went out their way to block Cadete's registration to hinder us and benefit Rangers. He pursued that to the hilt in a civil court and was proven to be right. In black and white, the Chief Executive of the SFA shown in a court of law to have cheated Celtic.

That was the actions of strong, forthright leader of Celtic and it's exactly the qualities that we should not only expect but demand. Anything else does our club a disservice.

 

Well if we are that well run then why have they basically * over their own support and shareholders, Lawwell is the same * that asked for enough evidence to take resolution 12 all the way. Then when he was giving all the evidence he needed he never pursued it.

 

Would the legal team have decided whether to pursue it.

 

I actually don’t know tbh mate, but he did ask the resolution 12 guys for the so called “smoking gun”. When they gave him all the evidence that the SFA knew about the outstanding tax bill he never took action.

 

I honestly don’t know either, but this big bad man mantra gathers it’s own pace on all bad things Celtic.
He has a team of experts around him & if he goes off at a tangent against their advice without consulting Dermot & loses then Dermot would have his bollox grilled & diced.

 

This. Also how folk know what way he votes amazes me, maybe there is a secret TC list I'm not aware of.. I haven't a clue what way he does vote so how they know I have no idea. Although even if he does vote for them people need to remember they are a mainstream political party and not some far left/right wing fringe party full of nutters, (well in the main if we exclude the brexit supporting fuds ).
I know for a fact a few players, current and ex, have voted for them previously, so should they be slaughtered also

 

It’s not just Rodgers time here, the * done it to Ronny, Lennon, WGS......

If that’s the case and not trusting Rodgers he gambled massively, Rodgers left when he could and it out the 10 in jeopardy. That’s terrible management is it not?

You only need to look at last summer with McGinn, the right back that went to Valencia and the the shamble of a January window we had.

 

I reckon most of us want them stripped - I don't want us retrospectively awarded them though, that would just create a *, especially in cup games in deciding who got to finals etc. Just strip them and place an asterisk with no winner as the trophy was withheld due to irregularities, or similar statement, in the list of previous winners.
You are right however they would still claim them but * them.

 

How you know what current players are voting for them? You got a camera in a booth and that's why lawells been voting via post? Sneaky *. He must be onto you